What are you GLAD you did, and would definitely do again?

[Emma1979]

i'm glad i let my dd watch baby bumblee bee vocabulary builder dvds on rainy days.... she's gone from am incredibly highly strung baby to an intelligent expressive toddler and at 16 months i can now just about hold a conversation with her.... she is so much happier now that she understands language and can communicate....

[BhoysGirl]

BFing - for pretty much the same reasons as everyone else. Although I realise that I've been incredibly lucky to have had such an easy BFing journey compared to some.

Reading - like Sacha, I love seeing my DS wander off to his room and sitting quietly reading his books.

Walking - nearly every day of his life DS has had a walk in his pram. Often just to the shops, but it gets us out & about and helps keep the cabin fever away.

Mother's Group - I'm glad that I put in an effort to stay with it & get to know the other mum's.

I'm glad I didn't succumb to the pressure to do controlled crying.

I'm glad that I cook most of DS's food, because it makes me feel all warmly earth mother-ish and nurturing. Although when he rejects it, I maybe take it too personally LOL

[Charlyfrog]

I'm glad that I also persevered with bf.

Glad I adopted baby sign language particularly for manners - we too didn't "baby talk" - we implemented please and thank you right from the beginning (DD#1 always looked confused when people would say, 'ta' when asking for something from her, say 'please' and she'd respond! )

......and finally, routine routine routine. Yes we did,for want of a better phrase, controlled crying as well as routine feeding. Not a popular thing I am very much aware and yet no negative side effects here! Both girls are fantastic eaters and sleepers - DD#1 sleeping through at 8/9 weeks and DD#2 sleeping through at approx 3&1/2 months. Hard work yes but so worth the pay off


ETA: just wanted to qualify the controlled crying too......we'd never let the girls go longer than 10 minutes at a time and less if they reached a peak in that time We never let them cry til they fell asleep exhausted. Always checking checking checking but generally, they'd only ever need one check and then off with noddy they went to play You just get to know your baby's cries iykwim and being on routine made it even easier to pick up their behaviours and what it'd mean